Alongside the attacks on Rojava, threats have multiplied against the autonomous territory of Şengal (northern Iraq, southern Kurdistan), where the majority of the Yazidi people live. The Iraqi state, in collaboration with the Turkish state, seeks to disarm the YBŞ-YJŞ self-defence forces, which fought alongside the PKK guerrillas and YPJ-YPG to save Şengal from genocide and to liberate the territory from Daesh. Since 2014 and up to the present day, the YBŞ-YJŞ have been defen

This poem was written by Ruken Viyan Gever in tribute to comrade Emîne Erciyes, a vanguard PKK and PAJK militant and commander in the YJA-Star women‘s guerrilla forces, who was martyred in 2020 in the Medya Defence Zones.